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- deathboy
Say in indesign you have an image that you scale up like 50%. Is it better to scale the image in photoshop then relink, or does indesign in its exporting process use the ps scaling engine/tool?
- akrokdesign0
o'boy. you really shouldn't scale that much. like 10% max.
print it out and make sure it looks good and not pixilated. if you can.
- plash0
better have a raw image format and better be large.. scaling up is never recommended without proofs..
- deathboy0
yea i understand i shouldnt. just kinda wondering about indesign scaling mechanism. I know photoshop does some smooth and pixel related things to get a better image. Wasnt sure if indesign took advantage of that or if had its own more crude scaling engine. Doing a job that the client requests a lot of image size increases and it got me thinking how it works. i did a print test with a lo res image and i saw that photoshop does a better job, but wasnt sure then if it was a setting in indesign i could adjust, or just a limitation of indesign.
- deathboy0
tested with cs3
- doesnotexist0
just get proofs
- deathboy0
yea i guess ill jsut do any increase in size in photoshop, proofs time and money, and from my basic tests it looks like indesign doesnt use photoshop sizing tool. be cool if cs4 does.
- gramme0
If you absolutely must upsample, do it 5% at a time in Photoshop. Adding some noise—not too much—along the way helps.
I find that you can scale up about 20% before there's a noticeable loss in resolution.
- deathboy0
alright looks like indesign doesnt use ps resizing algorit.. so is there any tricks or plugins to get better resize out of indesign without turning to photoshop?
- airey0
also, scale in 10% increments. apparently the scaling is better quality when you do this rather than choose a random percentage.